Watch trailer for Surf Curse Presents: The American Friend
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Surf Curse Presents: The American Friend
Opens on February 24
Director: Wim Wenders Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1977 Language: German
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, GĂ©rard Blain, Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray
Join the band for a screening of Wim Wenders’, The American Friend (1977)!
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman’s terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.